James Elphinston, an eighteenth-century schoolmaster and grammarian, believed English should be spelled as it is spoken, and he wrote this short treatise in his own reformed spelling. He works through vowels and their serviles, aspirates, silent letters and stress, and closes with an orthographic riddle and its solution.
A curiosity for lovers of language, spelling reform and the eccentrics of the Georgian age. Download the free EPUB.